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Australian boy survives after being bitten and dragged into pool by python
- Beau, 5, was playing by the edge of a swimming pool in Byron Bay when the snake struck from nearby vegetation
- The boy’s grandfather dived into the pool and lifted him out before his dad pulled the python from Beau’s leg
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A five-year-old boy has survived being bitten, constricted and knocked into a swimming pool by a python the length of a small car, with his father telling media, “Aw look, it’s where we live. It is Australia.”
Five-year-old Beau was playing by the edge of a pool in Byron Bay when a three-metre-long (10-foot) python struck from nearby vegetation, his father Ben Blake told Nine radio on Friday.
“I believe the python was sort of sitting there waiting for a victim to come along – a bird or something – and Beau was it.”
The python bit the child, plunged both into the water and coiled itself around a leg.
The boy’s 76-year-old grandfather lept to the rescue, diving into the pool and lifting the boy out – with snake still attached.
Ben Blake then prised the snake loose and tried to calm the situation.
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